Holmes ignored him, pointedly crossing the small room to put as much distance between them as possible. “I was very frustrated at the lack of care I felt she was receiving,” Holmes had earlier told the jury about her friend, who now faces the death penalty for drowning her five children in the family bathtub last summer. Holmes’s complaints about what she saw as Rusty Yates’s failure to get timely psychiatric help for his wife came during testimony that often depicted him as a controlling and domineering husband....

“After much thought and consideration, I have decided to forgo my remaining eligibility and declare for the NFL Draft,” Alexander said in a statement. “While I may now be leaving to pursue an NFL career, I will always be a Clemson Tiger and I will return to Clemson to finish my degree.” The redshirt sophomore cornerback had to sit out of the second half of the title game after he hurt his right hamstring in the second quarter....

The Tigers have won two national titles in four seasons and will look to add a third when they face LSU on Monday in the College Football Playoff national championship game. While Swinney is loved by Clemson fans, it wasn’t always that way. Here are 10 facts about the coach and how the Tigers almost missed out on the most successful era in program history. LSU vs. CLEMSON: Odds, predictions, betting trends for national championship...

Swinney’s vote in the weekly USA Today Coaches Poll showed that he didn’t believe the Buckeyes (6-0) are a top-10 team. Swinney’s Tigers take on OSU on Jan. 1 in the Sugar Bowl for the right to play in the national championship game, and he apparently believes Ohio State to be the 11th-best team in the country. Here’s how Swinney ordered his top 12 in the poll released Sunday:...

Damage was limited to the glass case protecting the storied rock, one of several security measures put in place following vandalism which occurred in June 2013 when a portion of the rock was broken and stolen off its pedestal that protects the artifact. Howard’s Rock and the pedestal have been removed from the stadium until the covering can be replaced. MORE: Fisher: Winston ’normal student’ in shoplifting incident | Top 25 QBs | Best spring games...

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney revealed Saturday that Lawrence, who tested positive for COVID-19 this week, will not be available for the Nov. 7 matchup at Notre Dame Stadium. That puts a serious damper on No. 1 Clemson’s matchup with No. 4 Notre Dame, and it brings into question what the game means for each side. Do the Tigers (7-0, 6-0 ACC) need it more, or is it a mulligan situation without Lawrence?...

Restricting guns is the last thing Emanuel wants to talk about now. An Illinois congressman, he helped Democrats take back the Capitol last year in part by recruiting pro-gun candidates. The effort was part of a larger push to reach out to gun owners who’d shunned the party. That may help explain the noticeable hush from Democrats in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings. Some Democrats have begun to sound a lot like Republicans on the issue....

Researchers created models to estimate that between the 1970s and 2000s, the levels of the substance in Atlantic bluefin tuna increased by 56 percent; and 23 percent in Atlantic cod. The authors of the paper published in the journal Nature pinned the climb to rising seawater temperatures after 1969. The toxin can be passed on from a mother to her fetus and has been linked to long-term neurocognitive problems in children, which can last into adulthood....

Climate Line or Heated Tubing ClimateLine is a trademarked heated tube that is available through ResMed, one of the major manufacturers of positive airway pressure machines. It is included in the latest S9 unit and is meant to improve the experience of using CPAP. The ClimateLine is part of the climate control system that includes the heated humidifier. It includes a sensitive heating circuit that is automatically controlled and can adjust the temperature of the air delivered to the mask....

Larson wrecked after contact with Clint Bowyer as they entered Turn 1 on the opening lap of the Toyota Owners 400 Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway. MORE: Ambrose punches Mears | Keselowski mad at Kenseth | Logano wins wild race Bowyer, who started third, had the inside lane and Larson attempted to cut in front of him going into the first turn. They made contact, with Larson’s car spinning toward the wall....

Would it matter much if Clinton preferred boxer shorts instead? Absolutely. The semiotics of underwear can go a long way toward defining the modern presidency. Underwear can be a badge of power; Lyndon Johnson showed who was in charge by presiding over conferences on the toilet with his drawers around his ankles. But when Jimmy Carter donned a symbolic hair shirt for his “malaise in America!’ speech, the nation felt a collective itch for change, and voted in the silk-lined Reagan era....

Complaints inside the White House, in fact, center on Candidate Clinton’s promise to reduce presidential staff by 25 percent. Last Friday chief of staff Mack McLarty and his deputy Mark Gearan presented Clinton with charts and graphs showing how to make the cuts. If it sounds like strategic planning, it is. White House officials-who are already complaining they’re paid less, but work harder, than their Bush counterparts-are expected to battle Clinton to the last administrative assistant....

In a clip posted to TikTok by user @farmer.lamb on September 14, Rex can be seen either smiling or snarling as his owner, Charles, lists his loves and hates. So far, the post has received more than 810,000 likes and almost 30,000 shares, with one TikToker comparing Rex’s experience to an “emotional rollercoaster.” Can Dogs Understand Words? A 2021 study found that dogs can understand up to 215 words, after researchers from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, studied 159 pets and their owners....

Following his team’s 154-111 Game 5 win over the Mavericks to go up 3-2 in the first-round series, Rivers used his postgame news conference to call not only for an end to police brutality, but also for a change in police training and an end to police unions. He added that he does not want to defund the police — only for officers to protect the Black communities “just like they protect everybody else....

Rivers has earned this promotion. He served as a unifying force during the dark days of the Donald Sterling fiasco, putting on a strong face while controversy swirled around the franchise in the wake of Sterling's racist remarks. MORE: Sterlings hits court July 7 | Sterling looks up dirt on Silver | Baylor, the NBA and race Sterling subsequently received a lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine, the largest allowable penalty under the NBA's collective bargaining agreement....

It’s more bad injury news for Clowney, who has not been a stragner in the trainer’s room since being drafted No. 1 overall. He revealed last week that he sustained a concussion during a preseason joint practice with the Broncos last month. In June, he underwent sports hernia surgery. He said that he played through the pain of the injury during his junior year at South Carolina. Now, he has a knee injury and could be out as long as six weeks....

What we learned from Liga MX Round 13 Gomez’s family reported him missing Thursday after he didn’t attend an 8 a.m. training session Wednesday, saying he requested an Uber early Wednesday morning and hadn’t been seen since. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s complaint against him, though, Gomez was in U.S. custody at that time after driving across the border at the Otay Mesa crossing in a Chrysler Sebring he owns....

While speaking about this development, Camerota suggested that Aldrich may have been given legal advice to claim to be non-binary to avoid receiving a hate crime charge. She also questioned why this information hadn’t come out earlier, since Aldrich has been under significant scrutiny since his arrest as the suspect in a shooting at an LGBTQ venue, Club Q, on Saturday night. The video of Camerota reporting this development and discussing it with her guest has so far been viewed more than 300,000 times since being posted on Twitter on Tuesday....

Hannity has for years accused critics ranging from Democrats to CNN hosts as part of a “left-wing crime family,” but Stelter on Sunday urged Americans not to get “numb to this abusive language.” The Reliable Sources host said the language coming from Hannity and Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson is not opinion but instead a concerted effort to radicalize the far right-wing in the United States. Stelter said that Hannity, much like Trump, “wields power” by portraying a “poisonous” view of the country....